Best-of-Beane - Beane Issue

Research Paper Quick Check

Startling and informative opening

Quick summary of main question that I mean to answer or reason I think this topic is important

Two or three most interesting things I learned from research

Confirmation or rejection of one or two commonly held beliefs about this topic

Something to connect the topic to the reader's life so that he/she will care

A closing surprise...intriguing fact, quotation, or discovery from my own research